James Warren, Chief Digital Strategist, Europe; Chief Digital Creative Officer, Worldwide
James Warren is Weber Shandwick's Chief Digital Strategist, Europe and Chief Digital Creative Officer, Worldwide.
Working on projects for clients across Weber Shandwick's UK business, James and his team also work closely with the firm's 70-strong global digital practice. In the UK, the interactive, social and emerging media division is part of the ‘hothouse’ of specialist practices which includes Corporate Responsibility, Broadcast, Multi-Cultural Communications and Internal Communications. This latest development showcases Weber Shandwick’s commitment to understanding advocacy in the ever-complex communications environment in which digital plays a massive part.
James is an award-winning PR consultant and recognised thought-leader in the area of PR and social media. Prior to joining Weber Shandwick, James was creative director and a founding member of Bite Communications.
It has been acknowledged by CEO Colin Byrne and throughout Weber Shandwick that digital communications and social media are central to client strategy. The growth of our digital team headed-up by James, to a higher profile, central cross-agency function reflects this.
Click here to read James’ article for PRWeek entitled ‘The End of the Beginning.’
Kim Hoang, SVP, Head of European Digital Practice
Kim Hoang joined Weber Shandwick in August 2010 as Senior Vice President to lead the European Digital Practice. Kim’s focus is to work with the digital team to ensure the agency produces best-in-class digital solutions and social media strategies for clients, and counsel them how best to compete and engage their audiences across multiple digital platforms.
Kim came from the parent group of Weber Shandwick called CMG (part of the Interpublic Group) where she held a regional leadership role in managing and deploying technologies to service CMG’s marketing communications agencies and their clients across the EMEA region.
Prior to joining CMG, Kim spent five years at McCann WorldGroup spearheading the agency's collaborative workspace and digital business across Europe. She managed a range of Fortune 500 clients to provide strategic & tactical directions and helped clients mobilised their branding communications & global campaigns coordination in the online space.
Prior to joining McCann, Kim held a number of key roles in Australia for internet brand portals and search engine portal, and in Asia as marketing research consultant.
Robert Anderson, Head of Digital Communications, UK
Specialising in technology and healthcare, Robert provides strategic counsel to a number of key clients across Weber Shandwick’s European network including Microsoft, GlaxoSmithKline, Juniper Networks, Sanofi-aventis, Monster, Abbott Laboratories and The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
Prior to joining Weber Shandwick in 2008, Robert worked as a television news producer covering the biggest stories of the past decade at home and abroad for Sky News, CNBC and Reuters.
Moving to the digital world, Robert was a founder member of Sky’s Online Business Unit and spent two years developing the broadcaster’s online content strategy. He worked with high-profile shows such as ‘Soccer AM’ to increase interactivity through video and provide digital promotion opportunities for major clients including Nissan. He also managed content syndication deals with YouTube and Google, as well as advising on social network engagement programmes and the integration of online video and user generated content.
His award-winning work has included a Cannes Silver Lion, a D&AD pencil and a European SABRE, as well as a CIPR award for digital measurement and evaluation.
John Evans, Director, Digital Corporate Communications
John has over 14 years of experience in corporate communications. His experience includes working for a number of leading London based corporate agencies, most recently Brunswick Group where he was responsible for integrating a full digital offer.
John also has experience in-house having spent three years running a pan-European PR function for a telecoms start-up backed by Carlyle Group and Providence Equity partners.
Following this, John established and built a market leading digital business that partnered corporate communications agencies in devising and implementing a wide range of their client's online requirements. This included advising across all key aspects of digital from client's owned online assets such as websites, transaction sites and social media channels through to monitoring and engaging with online activists in times of crisis.
